Central Africa: Slow Progress in the Fight Against the LRA

24 November 2014
analysis

The Lord's Resistance Army has been escalating its abductions in Central Africa, a new UN report says. Although AU-led military operations appear to be weakening the group, the countries involved have other priorities.

Nesipiyo Tashana was 16 years old when rebels from the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) abducted her in the Central African Republic. That was three years ago. To avoid being killed, she had to do as she was told. "In the bush we were forced to hard labor and always carrying the luggage of the rebels," she recounted. "I have so much pain in my heart when I remember that."

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